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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

I have spent most of the day up-dating my book Strange & Weird -A Naturalists Viewpoint, to look at and respond to the Sykes DNA testing issue.

It is very poor science since all it has proven so far is that there might/possibly could be a hybrid bear in the Himalayas but who knows? And that some hair samples with very poor provenance have proven they are not from a Sasquatch.

That the programme makers -even Sykes- had already concluded they were dealing with myths was not a good sign.

As I have allready written, decades of research by zoologists and others -such as Jeff Meldrum's work on footprint casts- was not even dismissed. It just was not even considered because the Great God DNA had decided some dubious (at best) hair samples were NOT from Yeti or Sasquatch. Which is like having four blonde human hairs for DNA testing and concluding their is no such thing as a red haired, black, grey or brown haired person.

I am awaiting the Almasty programme but so far, with no major Bigfoot research community fight-back with evidence and facts, the uninformed public now believes that only sad little loonies see or believe in yeti/bigfoot BECAUSE DNA has proven they don't exist. Even the case for the yeti being a bear is flawed because it only proves the hairs are from a bear.

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

If anyone knows of any serious Bigfoot/Sasquatch research groups who have made a statement regarding the Sykes DNA testing 'proving Bigfoot is a myth' -could you let me know?

No responses to my messages or any statements I can find. Hiding your head in the sand UNTIL the media start calling saying "Yeah, but you said DNA would PROVE Bigfoot exists but its proved it doesnt!" is not going to help.

Monday, 28 October 2013

Well, as it seems the entire Bigfoot/Sasquatch investigation community are huddled in a corner crying and refusing to break their silence over Prof. Syke's DNA test results of "Bigfoot" hairs last night, I thought I'd do some checking with my TV chums.

According
to 'Dave' - a friend so of course I'm not giving out his full name, he has a family to support-- in Channel 4 production, next week's Bigfoot Files "proves
Almasty do not exist"....

I can't believe Prof. Sykes set out to just
kill the subject. I had a lot of respect for him and previous work. I'm
hoping its just Channel 4 doing an hatchet-job. Bad editing. Anything. 'Dave' offered to have an informal chat with someone in production who had worked on the programmes.

'Dave' casually mentioned "that 1960s Bigfoot film" (Patty) and that he had seen the Monster Quest "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science" and that had experts from a number of fields who had studied tracks and so on. He said he thought that might have been looked at? He was told: "No, we used Professor Sykes before" (I looking at "unidentified" Yeti hair from the programme To The Ends Of The Earth, I think). "DNA will say yes or no. That's science. Not much else matters."

The guide for the third episode reads:

The 'Almasty' is Russia's very
own Bigfoot. It has been written about for over 300 years, and Russia's
Almasty hunters claim there have been over 10,000 encounters over the
years.

The big theory in Russia is that it's a surviving hominid, possibly even a Neanderthal.

Mark Evans travels to Russia and investigates one of the highest
profile Bigfoot stories in the world: the tale of Zana, the so-called
Wildwoman: a living Almasty said to have been found in the remote
Caucasus in the 1870s.

She was alleged to have had four children by her captors over the
years. Almasty hunters have tracked down her descendants and Bryan Sykes
uses cutting edge tests to analyse their DNA and test the Neanderthal
theory about Zana.

Mark also meets a giant among Almasty hunters, seven foot tall former
heavyweight boxing champion of the world Nikolai Valuev, who is now
Duma Deputy (the equivalent of an MP) for Kemerovo in Siberia.
Mark joins him as he checks out the latest hot Almasty sighting and
meets the three kids who claim to have captured one on camera near a
frozen lake.

Finally, in Moscow, Professor Sykes reveals the results of his DNA
tests on Zana's relatives. The results are unequivocal, extraordinary
and totally unexpected.

Will this overturn the supposedly proven myth Zana case genuine?
I doubt it as they used that last line on the Yeti summary!

So, last night, after Channel 4s Bigfoot DNA programme which at one point looked like it was going to be straight faced about Bigfoot (the sudden "loony tunes" type jingle when two "Bigfootologists"(??!) appeared gave the game away, I posted to Bigfoot Discovery Project/Museum, Bigfoot Encounters -in fact, every Bigfoot site I could think of to explain WHY this programme had not disproven the existence of Sasquatch.

Got up this morning expecting to see responses....nothing.

In fact, my comments have vanished from a couple sites including The Museum of the Weird, Bigfoot Discovery Project/Museum

Cryptozoology Online, based in the UK offered up -performer Lou Reed was dead. Then, they are not that credible.

Cryptomundo. Nothing. Well, "Best Bigfoot Beard"??

Bigfoot Evidence gives a link to "Rev. Jeff" and his thoughts"........

Cryptozoology News....nothing.

BFRO -nothing.

I am shocked. The Bigfoot community got some advance warning about the results so you might expect them to start putting the response together before everyone dismisses "Bigfootologists" as goofy nut jobs. Nothing. I am seriously hoping the silence is being miss-read by me and that there is a counter offensive about to start and pre-empt the US screening. If not, AFTER the show will be too late.

I corresponded with Ivan T. Sanderson and others at SITU about Sasquatch just as I did with George Haas (Bay Area Group) and many others. By this time those people would have been launching a counter offensive.

Next Generation I guess.

There were, as I mentioned in the last posting, LOTS of evidence that was just dismissed without even investigating -"well, plaster casts are all fake and don't provide any evidence" and Mark Farmer, who I at first thought was going to be serious smarmed his way through brief interviews.

Sykes and Farmer joked about how "Bigfootologists" hearing the mythical Bigfoot "wood-knocking" and who responded back were probably 'communicating with other "bigfootologists" who thought they were communicating with bigfoot. Oh how I laughed.

Thing is, serious Sasquatch researchers go out into the field and note things, today more and more on video, such as "odd smell at 11.50pm" or "Wood knocking heard and responded to at 1230 am" (usually with knock sequence and times. This all goes on the internet so some keen eye is quickly going to point out that two groups were in the same area and reported the same thing -they were NOT communicating with Bigfoot.

But let's not even think about that.

The major problem, as any naturalist will tell you, is that fur and hair in the wild is left everywhere. You have to SEE the animal brush up against a wire fence, post or something else then grab the samples. The provenance of the samples Sykes used were what we would call "non-worthy" and would not be tested. What about all the other "unidentified by testing" samples from universities, etc., we hear about? Are they not cooperating on this project?

What about the alleged fecal matter in cold storage?

But no, "Bigfoot is a modern myth" fits better.

And Smeja? No doubt he innocently picked up the sample thinking it was from the Bigfoot he shot when in fact it was left there when two bear predators fought over the carcass. yowch.

In my last book I pointed out WHY I had been changed from a total skeptic to someone thinking there really IS something out there. And I still do.

Sunday, 27 October 2013

According to Prof Sykes the question of whether Sasquatch exists is answered. It does not.

Was Meldrum and his work with alleged sasquatch footprints spoken to? No.

Was Grover Krantz' work looked at? No.

Was the "Patty" footage even mentioned? No.

Minnesota Iceman? No.

Any of the solid cases? No.

Not even dismissed because the programme was only interested in the hair DNA and I can tell you as a naturalist of 40+ years there are hairs everywhere in the wild. You HAVE to see the animal leave the hair and get it.

Smeja was proven a liar -I did say from the start I never believed that tale based on hearing and seeing his interviews.

So now everyone will believe there is no Yeti and no Sasquatch -mainly because Sasquatch hairs were NOT collected.

It was Channel 4 -what did I expect.

But Sykes could only base results on those hair samples and I was a little taken back by his end words seemingly dismissing it all as a modern myth.

Sunday, 20 October 2013

It's Official -The Yeti Is A Bear....Probably.

It
is, supposedly, a series that hominologists / cryptozoologists and
others are getting excited over. On Cryptozoology sites there is talk
of UK contacts ready to record and upload the 'episode' to You Tube.

However,
if you have read a newspaper, listened to the radio or seen TV snippets
you'll know -EVERYONE KNOWS- the conclusion drawn -bear.

Zoologically
it is interesting but just because someone said "these are yeti hairs"
does not mean they are allegedly from a hominid. On the other hand, if
it proves yeti reports are of a 'new' species of bear that in itself is
interesting.

It does NOT mean that Sasquatch is a
bear. Evidence suggests otherwise but scientists ARE taking note and
studying material they are given.

And in case you missed the item:

New DNA research may have finally solved the mystery of the yeti.

Tests on hair samples were found to have a genetic match with an
ancient polar bear, with scientists believing there could be a sub
species of brown bear in the High Himalayas that has been mistaken for
the mythical beast.

Yetis, also known as the "Abominable Snowman" or "Bigfoot", have been
recorded for centuries in the Himalayas, with local people and
mountaineers claiming to have come face-to-face with hairy, ape-like
creatures.

Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the Oxford University,
set out to collect and test "yeti" hair samples to find out which
species they came from. In particular he analysed hairs from two unknown
animals, one found in the Western Himalayan region of Ladakh and the
other from Bhutan, 800 miles to the east.
After subjecting the hairs to the most advanced DNA tests available
and comparing the results to other animals' genomes stored on the
GenBank database, Professor Sykes found that he had a 100% match with a
sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway,
that dates back at least 40,000 years - and probably around 120,000
years - a time when the polar bear and closely related brown bear were
separating as different species.

Professor Sykes believes that the most likely explanation is that the
animals are hybrids - crosses between polar bears and brown bears. The
species are closely related and are known to interbreed where their
territories overlap.

The professor said: "This is an exciting and completely unexpected
result that gave us all a surprise. There's more work to be done on
interpreting the results. I don't think it means there are ancient polar
bears wandering around the Himalayas.

"But we can speculate on what the possible explanation might be. It
could mean there is a sub species of brown bear in the High Himalayas
descended from the bear that was the ancestor of the polar bear. Or it
could mean there has been more recent hybridisation between the brown
bear and the descendent of the ancient polar bear."

A photograph of a "yeti' footprint, taken by British climber Eric
Shipton at the base of Everest, sparked global mania after it was taken
in 1951.

Legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who became the first man to
climb Everest without oxygen, has studied yetis since he had a
terrifying encounter with a mysterious creature in Tibet in 1986.
His own research backs up the Prof Sykes' theory. H e uncovered an
image in a 300-year-old Tibetan manuscript of a "Chemo" - another local
name for the yeti, with text alongside it which was translated to read:
"The yeti is a variety of bear living in inhospitable mountainous
areas."

Prof Sykes added: " Bigfootologists and other enthusiasts seem to
think that they've been rejected by science. Science doesn't accept or
reject anything, all it does is examine the evidence and that is what
I'm doing."

His investigations features in a new three-part Channel 4 documentary series, Bigfoot Files, which starts on Sunday.

A book by Prof Sykes about his research, The Yeti Enigma: A DNA Detective Story, is to be published next spring.

Given that for many decades, even since the advent of DNA testing (very
expensive), those looking for the Yeti have found hairs and other
"artefacts" of yeti and just checked under a microscope and said "bear"
or found fecal matter with hair -"bear" I find it funny.

There are going to be people out there screeching "That should have been
MY discovery!" And whis is it NOT their discovery? Because they would
not test further. Science "knows" everything out there and now that
this pompous attitude has been dropped and DNA testing carried out....

I do not think many who are versed in the subject believed that yeti and
Sasquatch/Bigfoot were related. The yeti never conformed to behaviour
noted in Bigfoot. Also, there are the attacks by yeti -killing one or
more yak and even injuring people.

But, I am sure some will point out, just because these are said the be
yeti hair does not necessarily mean they are yeti hair. It won't stop
the manic "Yeti is a mystery ape" crowd.

What does this all mean, though? Well, now every TV company, scientific
institution are going to be getting money together for trail cams and
better scientific evidence -even the first 'yeti' footage!

Luckily, the yeti is protected in its homeland and I think anyone
thinking of going to hunt one would get very swift kicking out of the
country.

C4s
Yeti documentary. Travelogue. Talk about bears but not the reports that
differ from what might be bears.

A brown bear paw cast that matches
(if you take away the bear claws and ignore the dissimilarities)
Shipton's yeti foot print -plenty of sarcastic comments suggesting hoaxy
climbers and natives not able to tell a bear -and we are talking a
BEAR- from what they call a yeti.

Two hairs dis-prove the yeti are
anything than a bear "might be" "could be" "possibly" "If they still
exist".

DNA was interesting but Sykes got 10(?) minutes of the programme and judging by a BBC interview he DOES have unidentified hair samples but it seems C4 cut that. If you have samples send them to him because he is serious even if the series isn't!

what a pile of s***.

Does the Yeti exist? Going by this programme -maybe, possibly, we don't know.

Now here is the problem. I have absolutely no doubt that Professor Sykes is genuine. I think that is beyond question and there is no "hidden agenda" as someone put it to me. He admits to having unidentified hairs and he has a true scientific curiosity which is to investigate the evidence and see where it leads because THAT is what science is supposed to do.

I've worked with TV people -Sky, BBC, ITV and Channel 4 and there is one thing you learn: despite every promise from those working on a piece for TV you can guarantee that they are being nice and "tolerant" toward you because they NEED your imput. Some are genuinely nice but know that the final edit is not theres.

You get the "oh, maybe they ought to lay off the strong stuff" or "That must have been one Friday night" -suggesting drink was involved in the witnesses cases -I got an apology from the BBC when they made it sound that I was a loony eccentric and I presented my credentials as having been a member of the official Partners Against Wildlife Crime (PAWS), UK police forces advisor on exotic animals and of course having my name on a couple of conference papers not to mention write ups as being "a noted naturalist". But that apology was from the reporter. "I am sorry but the editor/director makes the decisions" and so I blacklisted any future work from the BBC.

I did expect something like "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science" but that was a mental aberration on my part. The presenter was THE main feature of the programme so we got no real look at Sykes' work. It was, as I wrote, a travelogue.

I should not have expected more from Channel 4 -I've heard two conversations today where members of the public were saying "Did you see that on TV -they proved the yeti and bigfoot were bears". And THAT is what will stick in peoples minds. None will have read a book or even Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science or even seen the TV programme of the same name. They do not care.

The rather sarcastic "gentlemen climbers wouldn't pull a hoax" line was so insulting. The travelogue was there for one reason: so that C4s resident "animal expert" could start leading people up the bear trail and then edit Sykes down to "its a bear. possibly. might be"

If you were expecting science you'll be disappointed -they were building the programme up in that way but it was a sham.

Again, though, if you have possible Sasquatch hair GET THEM TO PROFESSOR SYKES!

The terror and mystery created by “Jack The Ripper” has been the
subject of countless books, magazine articles as well as movies and TV
documentaries. Ask anyone if they have ever heard of Jack The Ripper
and it is doubtful anyone would respond with a “no idea.”

By that same token, ask people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you
would be lucky to find anyone who had ever heard of him. Spring-heeled
Jack was the subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the
Wraydons (1946) and Dominic Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack
in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum film company. The
character has also featured in both American and British comic books and
a number of books, for both children and adults.

But the fact that the Springald held the country –not just London– in a
grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten
except for some half-truths and fanciful theories.
Now be prepared to read the full story of Spring Heeled Jack

The spectacular fossilised skull of an ancient human ancestor that
died nearly two million years ago in central Asia has forced scientists
to rethink the story of early human evolution.

Anthropologists unearthed the skull at a site in Dmanisi, a small town in southern Georgia, where other remains of human ancestors, simple stone tools and long-extinct animals have been dated to 1.8m years old.
Experts
believe the skull is one of the most important fossil finds to date,
but it has proved as controversial as it is stunning. Analysis of the
skull and other remains at Dmanisi suggests that scientists have been
too ready to name separate species of human ancestors in Africa. Many of those species may now have to be wiped from the textbooks.

The
latest fossil is the only intact skull ever found of a human ancestor
that lived in the early Pleistocene, when our predecessors first walked
out of Africa. The skull adds to a haul of bones recovered from Dmanisi
that belong to five individuals, most likely an elderly male, two other
adult males, a young female and a juvenile of unknown sex.

The five H erectus skulls found in Dmanisi, Georgia. Photograph: Ponce de León, Zollikofe/University of Zurich

The site was a busy watering hole that human ancestors shared with
giant extinct cheetahs, sabre-toothed cats and other beasts. The remains
of the individuals were found in collapsed dens where carnivores had
apparently dragged the carcasses to eat. They are thought to have died
within a few hundred years of one another.

"Nobody has ever seen such a well-preserved skull from this period," said Christoph Zollikofer,
a professor at Zurich University's Anthropological Institute, who
worked on the remains. "This is the first complete skull of an adult
early Homo. They simply did not exist before," he said. Homo is the
genus of great apes that emerged around 2.4m years ago and includes
modern humans.

Other researchers said the fossil was an
extraordinary discovery. "The significance is difficult to overstate. It
is stunning in its completeness. This is going to be one of the real
classics in paleoanthropology," said Tim White, an expert on human evolution at the University of California, Berkeley.

But
while the skull itself is spectacular, it is the implications of the
discovery that have caused scientists in the field to draw breath. Over
decades excavating sites in Africa, researchers have named half a dozen
different species of early human ancestor, but most, if not all, are now
on shaky ground.

The most recently unearthed individual had a long face and big
teeth, but the smallest braincase of all five H erectus skulls found at
the site. Photograph: Georgian National Museum

The remains at Dmanisi are thought to be early forms of Homo erectus,
the first of our relatives to have body proportions like a modern
human. The species arose in Africa around 1.8m years ago and may have
been the first to harness fire and cook food. The Dmanisi fossils show that H erectus migrated as far as Asia soon after arising in Africa.

The
latest skull discovered in Dmanisi belonged to an adult male and was
the largest of the haul. It had a long face and big, chunky teeth. But
at just under 550 cubic centimetres, it also had the smallest braincase
of all the individuals found at the site. The dimensions were so strange
that one scientist at the site joked that they should leave it in the
ground.

The odd dimensions of the fossil prompted the team to look
at normal skull variation, both in modern humans and chimps, to see how
they compared. They found that while the Dmanisi skulls looked
different to one another, the variations were no greater than those seen
among modern people and among chimps.

The
scientists went on to compare the Dmanisi remains with those of
supposedly different species of human ancestor that lived in Africa at
the time. They concluded that the variation among them was no greater
than that seen at Dmanisi. Rather than being separate species, the human
ancestors found in Africa from the same period may simply be normal
variants of H erectus.

"Everything that lived at the time of the Dmanisi was probably just Homo erectus,"
said Prof Zollikofer. "We are not saying that palaeoanthropologists did
things wrong in Africa, but they didn't have the reference we have.
Part of the community will like it, but for another part it will be
shocking news."

Reconstruction of the early human ancestor Homo erectus from the
latest skull found at Dmanisi in Georgia. Illustration: J H Matternes

David Lordkipanidze
at the Georgian National Museum, who leads the Dmanisi excavations,
said: "If you found the Dmanisi skulls at isolated sites in Africa, some
people would give them different species names. But one population can
have all this variation. We are using five or six names, but they could
all be from one lineage."

If the scientists are right, it would trim the base of the human evolutionary tree and spell the end for names such as H rudolfensis, H gautengensis, H ergaster and possibly H habilis.

"Some
palaeontologists see minor differences in fossils and give them labels,
and that has resulted in the family tree accumulating a lot of
branches," said White. "The Dmanisi fossils give us a new yardstick, and
when you apply that yardstick to the African fossils, a lot of that
extra wood in the tree is dead wood. It's arm-waving."

"I think they will be proved right that some of those early African fossils can reasonably join a variable Homo erectus species," said Chris Stringer,
head of human origins at the Natural History Museum in London. "But
Africa is a huge continent with a deep record of the earliest stages of
human evolution, and there certainly seems to have been species-level
diversity there prior to two million years ago. So I still doubt that
all of the 'early Homo' fossils can reasonably be lumped into an
evolving Homo erectus lineage. We need similarly complete African fossils from two to 2.5m years ago to test that idea properly."

The analysis by Lordkipanidze also casts doubt on claims that a creature called Australopithecus sediba that lived in what is now South Africa around 1.9m years ago was a direct ancestor of modern humans. The species was discovered by Lee Berger at
the University of Witwatersrand. He argued that it was premature to
dismiss his finding and criticised the authors for failing to compare
their fossils with the remains of A sediba.

"This is a
fantastic and important discovery, but I don't think the evidence they
have lives up to this broad claim they are making. They say this
falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo. The very simple response is, no it doesn't."

"What
all this screams out for is more and better specimens. We need
skeletons, more complete material, so we can look at them from head to
toe," he added. "Any time a scientist says 'we've got this figured out'
they are probably wrong. It's not the end of the story."

It
is, supposedly, a series that hominologists / cryptozoologists and
others are getting excited over. On Cryptozoology sites there is talk
of UK contacts ready to record and upload the 'episode' to You Tube.

However,
if you have read a newspaper, listened to the radio or seen TV snippets
you'll know -EVERYONE KNOWS- the conclusion drawn -bear.

Zoologically
it is interesting but just because someone said "these are yeti hairs"
does not mean they are allegedly from a hominid. On the other hand, if
it proves yeti reports are of a 'new' species of bear that in itself is
interesting.

It does NOT mean that Sasquatch is a
bear. Evidence suggests otherwise but scientists ARE taking note and
studying material they are given.

And in case you missed the item:

New DNA research may have finally solved the mystery of the yeti.

Tests on hair samples were found to have a genetic match with an
ancient polar bear, with scientists believing there could be a sub
species of brown bear in the High Himalayas that has been mistaken for
the mythical beast.

Yetis, also known as the "Abominable Snowman" or "Bigfoot", have been
recorded for centuries in the Himalayas, with local people and
mountaineers claiming to have come face-to-face with hairy, ape-like
creatures.

Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the Oxford University,
set out to collect and test "yeti" hair samples to find out which
species they came from. In particular he analysed hairs from two unknown
animals, one found in the Western Himalayan region of Ladakh and the
other from Bhutan, 800 miles to the east.
After subjecting the hairs to the most advanced DNA tests available
and comparing the results to other animals' genomes stored on the
GenBank database, Professor Sykes found that he had a 100% match with a
sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway,
that dates back at least 40,000 years - and probably around 120,000
years - a time when the polar bear and closely related brown bear were
separating as different species.

Professor Sykes believes that the most likely explanation is that the
animals are hybrids - crosses between polar bears and brown bears. The
species are closely related and are known to interbreed where their
territories overlap.

The professor said: "This is an exciting and completely unexpected
result that gave us all a surprise. There's more work to be done on
interpreting the results. I don't think it means there are ancient polar
bears wandering around the Himalayas.

"But we can speculate on what the possible explanation might be. It
could mean there is a sub species of brown bear in the High Himalayas
descended from the bear that was the ancestor of the polar bear. Or it
could mean there has been more recent hybridisation between the brown
bear and the descendent of the ancient polar bear."

A photograph of a "yeti' footprint, taken by British climber Eric
Shipton at the base of Everest, sparked global mania after it was taken
in 1951.

Legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who became the first man to
climb Everest without oxygen, has studied yetis since he had a
terrifying encounter with a mysterious creature in Tibet in 1986.
His own research backs up the Prof Sykes' theory. H e uncovered an
image in a 300-year-old Tibetan manuscript of a "Chemo" - another local
name for the yeti, with text alongside it which was translated to read:
"The yeti is a variety of bear living in inhospitable mountainous
areas."

Prof Sykes added: " Bigfootologists and other enthusiasts seem to
think that they've been rejected by science. Science doesn't accept or
reject anything, all it does is examine the evidence and that is what
I'm doing."

His investigations features in a new three-part Channel 4 documentary series, Bigfoot Files, which starts on Sunday.

A book by Prof Sykes about his research, The Yeti Enigma: A DNA Detective Story, is to be published next spring.

Given that for many decades, even since the advent of DNA testing (very expensive), those looking for the Yeti have found hairs and other "artefacts" of yeti and just checked under a microscope and said "bear" or found fecal matter with hair -"bear" I find it funny.

There are going to be people out there screeching "That should have been MY discovery!" And whis is it NOT their discovery? Because they would not test further. Science "knows" everything out there and now that this pompous attitude has been dropped and DNA testing carried out....

I do not think many who are versed in the subject believed that yeti and Sasquatch/Bigfoot were related. The yeti never conformed to behaviour noted in Bigfoot. Also, there are the attacks by yeti -killing one or more yak and even injuring people.

But, I am sure some will point out, just because these are said the be yeti hair does not necessarily mean they are yeti hair. It won't stop the manic "Yeti is a mystery ape" crowd.

What does this all mean, though? Well, now every TV company, scientific institution are going to be getting money together for trail cams and better scientific evidence -even the first 'yeti' footage!

Luckily, the yeti is protected in its homeland and I think anyone thinking of going to hunt one would get very swift kicking out of the country.

After more than 30 years as an
investigator of the weird, bizarre and sinister and more than forty as a
naturalist, the author (a noted naturalist and UK police forces exotic
wildlife consultant) has opened
some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn -the famous case of inter-acting
poltergeist that has a place in the canon of the paranormal. The Ghosts
Of All Saints
Church, Bristol -a famous haunting. The Dead Aquatic
Creatures of Canvey Island, Essex -just what were the several creatures,
humanoid in appearance, that were washed ashore from the 1940s-1950s?
Captured bigfoot like creatures in India that disappeared!

And the bizarre legend of Spring Heeled Jack is looked at as well as the
fact that there were far more than one "Jack" and the very name was
used to spread terror beyond London! This 2013 up-date contains an
expanded chapter on the case.

All
these cases are exclusively presented for the first time and with new
added research previously unseen. Photographs,maps,line drawings
and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and
Sinister.

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this
book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!

For those interested in
Ufology,cryptozoology,hominology,unusual natural history,ghosts and
mysteries in general.

The secret history of gorillas -before they were 'discovered'. Includes
accounts of mystery primates in the UK dating back to the 18th
century. Some photographs not seen in publication in over 100 years are
exclusively presented here.

Wild men
of Europe, the UK and US. Hominology. Some contemporary accounts from
newspapers of some violent, deadly and plain strange wildmen -including
the 19th century British wildman craze.

Also included are chapters on:

Giant snakes.

Amazons.

The Giant
serpent of Carthage.

The Girt Dog of Ennerdale.

The Beast of Gevaudan -sorting through the fiction presented by many to
establish just what the true beast was -exclusive material included.

Crocodiles in the UK -unbelievable though it may be, this is not a
modern urban myth but a fact. However Medieval and 19th century
crocodile encounters?

Silent City of Alaska. For the first time in over 100 years, exclusively
presented is the actual photograph of "the City in the Sky" so talked
about but never tracked down until now!

Much expanded section looking at Dead Aquatic (Humanoid)
Creatures world wide from the UK, Tanzania and beyond.

The giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures -are the "sea
monsters" of old dying out: are they becoming a thing of the past due to
pollution, over-fishing of food sources?

Have submarine
and ships crews encountered true leviathans. According to many 'experts' on these cases "yes" -but what are the facts?

Extinct animals at sea
that have been re-discovered -a look at Stellar's Sea Cow, whale
migrations and mystery aquatic light wheels that seem somehow connected
-prey and predator or simple established migration of unknown sea
creatures?

Sasquatch and other
Hominids around the world -does re-evaluation and scientific methodology
used in the re-examination of the Patterson-Gimlin footage of "Patty"
prove that it/she really WAS an unknown hominid? And just how does
science stand deal with these cases -for once the outright skeptics
appear to be getting caught out.

Two early French UFO entity cases
that still baffle are re-examined. The persons involved gained nothing,
even if the profound event changed their lives so are they real
-genuine cases?

Also ghosts and photographs alleged to be of spectres that are labelled
"unsolved", photograph of a strange creatures at the side of a German
lake -a Other Dimentional Intelligence or a fake?

The Star-Child hoax and other hoaxes said to show evidence of genuine aliens or alien-human hybrids: the facts.

The story is as follows:

Why do all ghost kids look so creepy? Couldn’t they ever be playing, laughing or smiling?

RAVENNA, Ohio – A local ghost story is getting new attention.

Lu Ann Sicuro has lived in her Ravenna home for 20 years. She says
she’s experienced some strange and frightening paranormal activity.

She hears voices, noises in the closets and door knobs jiggling.

She claims the proof is in a photo taken by her son a few years ago. It shows a little girl’s image in the window.

Lu Ann said what was captured on camera is quite disturbing and very bizarre.

“I feel that this image is a very good photo of something paranormal caught on camera,” she said

Lu Ann thinks the girl is roaming her halls at night.

“A very disturbing photo. It appears to be an image of a child. I
believe the image in the photograph shows what is in our home,” she
said. “I’ve heard giggling, I’ve heard little footsteps.”

Two teams of paranormal investigators checked out the house and have confirmed a presence.

Now, if you've read any of my books you'll know that I don't really go much on ghosts, despite personal experiences. I do not dismiss them out of hand -in fact, the tv series Ghost Adventures has come up with some fascinating evidence that I think science should look into. But let's not get off topic here.

For an interesting piece of matrixing look at this panel to the right (our left) of the ghost child we see the face of an old hag/witch. I really am surprised no one else has noticed it as it caught my eye before the ghost child!

Can't see it? Okay, darken the image and...

Scary, heh?

Now let's look at that ghost kid. Turquoise top and are we seeing a name tag on the breast of the top? It could be an object in front out of focus which raises more questions. But enlarge it more and it does LOOK like writing.

Is that a candle? An old trick to try to warp faces to make them look "ghostly" was to have a candle or heat source that set up warm air between camera and 'ghost' -or between camera-window-ghost in this case?

But this is what I see as a bit of a give-away...is that reflection on the neck area from the candle/light or flash of the camera? Or it that a torch used to light up the face?

To me it smacks of a hoax. It is possible that there is "ghostly activity" in the house but I'd like to hear far more and find out what evidence there is.

But for me this is just one more non-ghost photo.

addenda

I have been contacted by the lady who's son took this photograph and she assures me that it is genuine. The photograph was also investigated by Jeff Danelek on his Our Curious World website.

Friday, 11 October 2013

The Bigfoot Show Blog has an interesting post entitled "Patterson - Gimlin Film Debunking Debunked" that is well worth reading because it is ...so funny and ridiculous the length debunkers who "were involved" in that film (seem to be a hundred or so of them!) go.

In my last book, Pursuing The Strange & Weird, I paid close attention to the Star Child hoax skull. Back in the 1960s there was a BBC TV serial that I wish I could remember the name of in which strange, elongated skulls were found that proved to be of alien origin. And that scenario has been run with a few times.

All the build-up about the "official Full Disclosure" on aliens in 2012 have proven...fake. Now a fake interview with an alien exposed as such a few years back is on You Tube still but dated "2013"!

There are conmen everywhere.

Buy the book and please read the intreresting article below!

Credit: Cristina Garcia / INAH

Archeologists have unearthed a cone shaped skull looks like of alien from 1,000 years ago in Mexico. The find was made near the Mexican village of Onavas.

Cristina Garcia Moreno, who worked on the project with Arizona State University, explained that 13 of the 25 skulls found in the Hispanic cemetery had these deformed heads.

The burial ground consists of 25 individuals; 13 have intentional cranial deformation and five also have dental mutilation.

The site, known as El Cementerio,
was discovered in 1999, but the team just completed their analysis of
the skeletal remains last month. They plan to continue their research
during the next field season. Archaeologists also discovered artifacts
on the site, like pendants, nose rings and jewelry.

They said the deformation of human skulls
was part of an ancient ritual that took place 1,000 years ago. The
deformation was achieved by binding a person’s head between two blocks
of wood to apply pressure on the skull by wrapping the wood with bands.

“Cranial deformation has been
used by different societies in the world as a ritual practice, or for
distinction of status within a group or to distinguish between social
groups,” Moreno told ABC News. “The reason why these individuals at El
Cementerio deformed their skulls is still unknown.”

The team said
that many of the bones unearthed were the remains of children, leading
them to believe the practice of deforming skulls “may have been inlet
and dangerous.”

The Chinook of the U.S. Northwest and the Choctaw
of the U.S. Southeast both were known for practicing skull deformation
as well.

Moreno told ABC that people deformed their heads in
Mexico because they wanted to distinguish important people, or they
wanted to distinguish people from one group from another.

From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid)
Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures;submarine
and ships crews encountering true leviathans. Extinct animals at sea
that have been re-discovered and the subject of Sasquatch and other
Hominids around the world as well as two early French UFO entity cases
that still baffle, ghosts, strange creatures-and the Star-Child hoax.
All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird

Much expanded section looking at Dead Aquatic (Humanoid)
Creatures world wide from the UK, Tanzania and beyond.

The giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures -are the "sea monsters" of old dying out: are they becoming a thing of the past due to pollution, over-fishing of food sources?

Have submarine
and ships crews encountered true leviathans. According to many 'experts' on these cases "yes" -but what are the facts?

Extinct animals at sea
that have been re-discovered -a look at Stellar's Sea Cow, whale migrations and mystery aquatic light wheels that seem somehow connected -prey and predator or simple established migration of unknown sea creatures?

Sasquatch and other
Hominids around the world -does re-evaluation and scientific methodology used in the re-examination of the Patterson-Gimlin footage of "Patty" prove that it/she really WAS an unknown hominid? And just how does science stand deal with these cases -for once the outright skeptics appear to be getting caught out.

Two early French UFO entity cases
that still baffle are re-examined. The persons involved gained nothing, even if the profound event changed their lives so are they real -genuine cases?

Also ghosts and photographs alleged to be of spectres that are labelled "unsolved", photograph of a strange creatures at the side of a German lake -a Other Dimentional Intelligence or a fake?

The Star-Child hoax and other hoaxes said to show evidence of genuine aliens or alien-human hybrids: the facts.

For those interested in
Ufology,cryptozoology,hominology,unusual natural history,ghosts and
mysteries in general.

The secret history of gorillas -before they were 'discovered'. Includes accounts of mystery primates in the UK dating back to the 18th century. Some photographs not seen in publication in over 100 years are exclusively presented here.

Wild men
of Europe, the UK and US. Hominology. Some contemporary accounts from newspapers of some violent, deadly and plain strange wildmen -including the 19th century British wildman craze.

Also included are chapters on:

Giant snakes.

Amazons.

The Giant
serpent of Carthage.

The Girt Dog of Ennerdale.

The Beast of Gevaudan -sorting through the fiction presented by many to establish just what the true beast was -exclusive material included.

Crocodiles in the UK -unbelievable though it may be, this is not a modern urban myth but a fact. However Medieval and 19th century crocodile encounters?

Silent City of Alaska. For the first time in over 100 years, exclusively presented is the actual photograph of "the City in the Sky" so talked about but never tracked down until now!

After more than 30 years as an
investigator of the weird, bizarre and sinister and more than forty as a naturalist, the author (a noted naturalist and UK police forces exotic wildlife consultant) has opened
some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn -the famous case of inter-acting poltergeist that has a place in the canon of the paranormal. The Ghosts Of All Saints
Church, Bristol -a famous haunting. The Dead Aquatic
Creatures of Canvey Island, Essex -just what were the several creatures, humanoid in appearance, that were washed ashore from the 1940s-1950s? Captured bigfoot like creatures in India that disappeared!

And the bizarre legend of Spring Heeled Jack is looked at as well as the fact that there were far more than one "Jack" and the very name was used to spread terror beyond London! This 2013 up-date contains an expanded chapter on the case.

All
these cases are exclusively presented for the first time and with new
added research previously unseen. Photographs,maps,line drawings
and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and
Sinister.

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this
book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!